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WILLIAM S. WOOD, OF HATBOROUGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 76,369, dated April 7, 1868.

IMPROVEMENTS INi HARNESS.

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` -Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. WOD, of Hatborough, in the county of Montgomery, in the StateA of Pennsylvania, have invented a. new and, useful Improvement in "Hax'nessesg and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partvof this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved harness, showing the hook and spring connecting the hames of the collar. i

' The nature of my invention consists in 'providing a harness so constructed as to render the bitching and unhitohing 'of the horse assmple aud easy an operation as possible, and which, by means'of a. peculiar device, will, at all times, in case of the horse taking fright, for instance, and running`away, allow the driver to unhitch the horse withoutalighting from the carriage.

To enable others skilled in the art to make anduse my invention, I willuoiv proceed to describe'its con` struction and operation. i

I construct thev horse-collar so that it opens at bottom, M, and isexible or hinged at top, T, the llames beingl permanently connected with thecollar. A rope or strap, a b, is fastened on a spring-hook, ,which acts 'on the hannes H H', so as to connect or disconnect them at will by means of the said rope or strap la I1, the ends of which are in the hands ofvthe driver, or within his reach. It' we suppose the horse running-away, by fright or otherwise, the driver, without moving or alighting from his seat, gives a pull to rope or strap a b, opens the collar, and the horse, thus made free, runs away, leaving the carriage and driver in safety behind him.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as my invention, and desire to secure'by ,LettersV Paten l:

ofthe United States, is-

A harness composed of open collar, with permanent hames H H', rope or strap a b, sprng-hool Ic, all combined and constructed and operating in the'mannerand for the purpose above set forth and described.

, WILLIAM s. WooD.

Witnesses:

LIONEL DEPINEUIL, CHARLES. E. EVANS, SAMUEL L. TAILOR.' 

